Transformers Fan Built Bot Poll - Second Round

The first round of the "Transformers Fan Built Bot Poll" is over, and a second has opened! For the next week, fans get to vote on the following characteristics:

Name
Gender
Origin
Specialty

As a reminder, the results of this poll will be used to create a brand new Transformers character that will be featured in an upcoming Transformers comic series and appear in the "Thrilling 30" figure line. We will also get to see the character come to life through sketches and concept art throughout the design process, which will be shared on Transformers.com.

Transformers fans - you did an amazing job voting on the first five questions of the Fan Built Bot Poll, but our designers still need more information! We have four more important questions we need your votes on. Remember to vote every day! Voting will close end of day on May 17, 2013!

Click here to cast your votes and check out the press release below for further information!

IMPORTANT BULLETIN! HASBRO'S "TRANSFORMERS FAN BUILT BOT" POLL ENTERS CRUCIAL FINAL PHASEFans Helped Design a New Transformers Character…Now They Must Help Name It and More!

The first round of voting is complete in the Fan Built Bot poll, which for the first time in history allows fans of the Hasbro, Inc. TRANSFORMERS brand to help create a new TRANSFORMERS character that will be forever added to the TRANSFORMERS world. In anticipation of the TRANSFORMERS’ brand 30th anniversary in 2014, the “Fan Built Bot” Poll now enters its second and final voting phase, allowing fans to select the Fan Built TRANSFORMERS character's name, gender, origin and specialty!

Hasbro's designers are busy reviewing the fan choices from the first phase of the poll and designing the visual look of the new TRANSFORMERS character that will be introduced into the brand's rich lore, and will be produced as an action figure in next year's "TRANSFORMERS Thrilling 30" anniversary line. Voting on the four new questions begins today at TRANSFORMERS.COM/vote, and fans are encouraged to vote every day until this round of polling closes on May 17th.

The results of both rounds of the poll will be announced by Hasbro at this year’s Comic-Con International in San Diego, as part of the official kick-off to Hasbro’s TRANSFORMERS “Thrilling 30” anniversary celebration. While results of the first round of voting are a tightly held secret, a careful reading of Round 2's questions may provide some hints. "We're not prepared to say which alt-mode won the polling in round one," said Jay Duke, vice president of the TRANSFORMERS brand at Hasbro. “But a close reading of the name choices may provide a hint at what we’re designing. Stay tuned to find out more!"

Voting female, and hoping to convince other people to vote female. There's so few female Transformers as is, and he or she is going to end up in the IDW comics, where the only female transformer is Arcee, and only because of a Jhiaxus experiment!

definitely voting female. Assuming from the Autobot prefix on a few of the names that it was definitely a bot that won the last poll? Still, if we get a new fembot it'd be nice to not have a femme fatale bad guy, and instead maybe get an amazonian type? Brienne from Game Of Thrones as a TF?

I want to see Charon, female, and either bodyguard or telepath cause we really don't see those things that much in Transformers.

If "female" wins (and fingers crossed it does), then I really hope "motorcycle" didn't win. It'd be neat to see something big and strong and "for boys" like a construction vehicle or a tank be used for a female Transformer.

GuyIncognito wrote:One of the name choices is "Windblade", and two of the names begin with "Autobot". Looks like they've already decided it's an Autobot with a plane or copter alt mode.

Eclipse makes me think Spaceship, Charon boat, and Cashtron armored bank truck. *shrugs* But yeah, obvious the Bots won. Seems like they could've kept the mystery by simply leaving "Autobot" out of those two names, but I guess legally they have to include them even in this case.

I think a stealthy, ghostlike fem-bot with a needler type rifle would make a great recon bot. Think a TF version of a Starcraft Ghost.

This is almost exactly what I voted, just different origin. The moment I saw the name Wraith and the Recon option the SC Ghost is exactly what popped into my head.

ENOUGH WITH THE WAIF GIRL!

WANNA BIG MAMMA TANK WITH SUSPENTION EQUIPED BOOBIES!

No, seriously. The only "big mamma" female TF I remember is what's-her-name vehicon in the Beast Machine cartoon. And that may be only in the toon as a "need to have more females".I really want a female bot, designed to be female from the ground up, to be BIG and POWERFUL for once.

Hopefully those Autobot names are nothing more than a ruse, or legal placeholders. I'm sure they could just as easily be changed to 'Con names, and I'm hoping Hasbro aren't dense enough to be giving the game away already.

Honestly, I won't mind what the result is, so long as it's something different; i.e. not an Autobot car.

MINDVVIPE wrote:Voted Charon, Female (duh, we need more females), Kaon, close combat, so she doesn't get stuck with some oversized guns that don't fit (well) anywhere.

voted the same. was thinking Kaon, as she was an Autobot (its an Autobot, given the names) and survived all alone in Con infested regions for some time, just slicing and dicing the bad guys like some super badass warrior woman.

I voted twice for who would be Devcon. The other times I voted was for Stormcloud. Something that would fit in with War for Cybertron. These characters and spaceships I'd like to see. We need more Decepticons. They're already out numbered. I don't like the idea of having tons of drones(Beast Machines, Transformers Prime...), NOT exciting. Why can't we have these characters and others who have never had a world wide release? Instead of getting another Insecticon or another bot we get another Bumblebee. The new wave with TrailBREAKER. ARGH!!! Where's the tylenol? LOL!!!

SideswipeSkywarp wrote:I voted twice for who would be Devcon. The other times I voted was for Stormcloud. Something that would fit in with War for Cybertron. These characters and spaceships I'd like to see. We need more Decepticons. They're already out numbered. I don't like the idea of having tons of drones(Beast Machines, Transformers Prime...), NOT exciting. Why can't we have these characters and others who have never had a world wide release? Instead of getting another Insecticon or another bot we get another Bumblebee. The new wave with TrailBREAKER. ARGH!!! Where's the tylenol? LOL!!!

Y-you don't like Steve? You DON'T LIKE STEVE!? How COULD you, good sir? He's got a Stevewife and Steveson to feed!

I had a thought. The "Autobot X" names could be used deceivingly. It could be a decepticon who pretends to be an Autobot and boldly announces themselves as an Autobot at every turn in a bad attempt to fool the enemy.

Did my part. I figured there are enough medics and recon/scouts going around and WAY too many close combat specialists, and I never really liked the idea of a transformer with psychic powers (though Soundwave and Mindwipe at least do it right). So I went with Bodyguard.

Fires_Of_Inferno wrote:and I never really liked the idea of a transformer with psychic powers (though Soundwave and Mindwipe at least do it right).

Soundwave has psychic powers?

Not so much psychic powers but his sensors are so sensitive that he can seem to read the "thoughts" of other bots. Or at least it can make him hyper intuitive. Read it on a box somewhere. I forgot about Mindwipe. Silly me.

I kinda like the idea of an Autobot mystic/psychic type of warrior/character. Somethin different anyways. As said before...there's certainly enough recon,medics,close combat bots and whatever else out there already.I know a telepath may be a dumb idea to most in the TF fandom but it's outside of the box enough for me to make it the most interesting of the choices provided. And if you use the SOundwave example of having hyper sensitive sensors than it can be very plausible. Plus there's enough ancient mythos and whatnot in the the cannon that a mystic type character could work.

Downbeat wrote:Voting female, and hoping to convince other people to vote female. There's so few female Transformers as is, and he or she is going to end up in the IDW comics, where the only female transformer is Arcee, and only because of a Jhiaxus experiment!

I am with you on this. I mean, for the last 30 years, the only "strictly female" figures that gave us strong female characters were tied to Beast Wars and Prime. I mean Generation One, especially Binaltech, only gave us characters that were molded from male characters. And every other series gave us an Ariel/Arcee that was either just there or created to give the males moral support.

And IDW is another reason why I voted female. Will vote again tomorrow. And all because I still feel that the way Simon Furman allowed Arcee to exist was very messed up. To the point that I would prefer forgiving Michael Bay for Revenge of the Fallen first.

Downbeat wrote:Voting female, and hoping to convince other people to vote female. There's so few female Transformers as is, and he or she is going to end up in the IDW comics, where the only female transformer is Arcee, and only because of a Jhiaxus experiment!

I am with you on this. I mean, for the last 30 years, the only "strictly female" figures that gave us strong female characters were tied to Beast Wars and Prime. I mean Generation One, especially Binaltech, only gave us characters that were molded from male characters. And every other series gave us an Ariel/Arcee that was either just there or created to give the males moral support.

Downbeat wrote:Voting female, and hoping to convince other people to vote female. There's so few female Transformers as is, and he or she is going to end up in the IDW comics, where the only female transformer is Arcee, and only because of a Jhiaxus experiment!

I am with you on this. I mean, for the last 30 years, the only "strictly female" figures that gave us strong female characters were tied to Beast Wars and Prime. I mean Generation One, especially Binaltech, only gave us characters that were molded from male characters. And every other series gave us an Ariel/Arcee that was either just there or created to give the males moral support.

Downbeat wrote:Voting female, and hoping to convince other people to vote female. There's so few female Transformers as is, and he or she is going to end up in the IDW comics, where the only female transformer is Arcee, and only because of a Jhiaxus experiment!

I am with you on this. I mean, for the last 30 years, the only "strictly female" figures that gave us strong female characters were tied to Beast Wars and Prime. I mean Generation One, especially Binaltech, only gave us characters that were molded from male characters. And every other series gave us an Ariel/Arcee that was either just there or created to give the males moral support.

However, in her introduction, they stated that she was solely created to boost the morale of the other male Omnibots. Which is, ironically, the one reason why I was planning to buy her Medic variant... Up until the point they announced the "Arms Micron" version of Arcee.